San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-02-10

Notes from Georgia.

lHD. y hhE hhSp'--i hbON ~ NCoV
do you good to be here in many
towns in old Georgia and see tho
quoting effects of Prohibition.
Greenville, Union Point, Crawford,
Lexington, all small towns and even
Athens with population of 5000,
with not even the sound of the
cursed goblet heard. The good and
the bad in Georgia join in saying
how much good this move has done
for the State. The Atlanta Consti-
tuition came out in long article yes
terday, begging the people OF that
town not to agitate the question
again-for the sake of tho prosperity
of Atlanta to let it alone. Say to
the people of Texas, that wherever
prohibition is established in Georgia
it is n complete success.
This is an old country, poor, sandy,
not capable Of doing what our rich
prairies of Texas can do, but holding
n full set of honest sons of toll. l
think more of Texas than l did, but
none the less of Georgia. This
country pays three dollars per acre
for Guano, Texas has nothing to pay
for fertilizers. This makes q third
of bale to the acre, Hays county
half. This country works fifteen
acres to the hand, Texas twenty-five.
But on the other hand provisions and
labor are much cheaper-the best
farm hands getting only about eighty
dollars year. Money scarce and
nearly all business done on credit.
1t would bewilder some of our peo-
pie to see the immense amount OF
Western meat and corn brought here.
The merchants ship from five to ten
car loads of corn ut once, and notify
their customers that such train will
be in on q certain day, and they come
from all points of tho compass and
load direct from the car for the farms.
How can they be any other way but
poor?
This country is historical and grand
to me. Here are near relatives that
| have never seen before--been living
in the samo house for over fifty-five
years. Fathers, children and grand
children all enjoying life under the
same old roof, and on tho same old
clay hills Il am to day on the spot
where. ffty-two years ago my father
in the strength Of his young manhood
embraced his mother for the last
time, took his first born in his arms
and started for new country, and
my mother with all the devotion of q
young wife, kissed her nearest and
dearest ties o long forever farewell to
cleave to the man she had promised
to love and cherish. Parting in those
days smeant parting forever. This
was a forest then, but now time has
worn it out to the clay. My tears
sometime como in spite of me when
1 think Of all this past history of
troubles and trials OF long life of
my mother.
[ also passed over the battle
grounds of Atlanta, Resica and New
hope Church, where many brave
Mississippi boys fell in the last bloody
struggle between the States. Young
as l was, the dear boys names are all
familiar. Should this article go to
Mississippi many mothers who had
sons in the thirty third Miss. Infantry
would weep scalding tears at the
name of Atlanta and Newhope church
Bat times mighty hand moves the
world on in progress. The long
journey of one hundred days for my
father makes only journey Of three
short days now. Death carries the
father away, but timo sweeps by in
its rapid fight, picks up the child and
lands him in the next generation of
the worlds eternal progress.
Anxious to get home again.
Respectfully, J. A. THoMAs.
Crawford, Ga, Jan. 20, 1887.